Famous May Birthdays
Who was Born in May on Your Birthday?
Do you know who was born on your birthday? There are many famous May birthdays displayed below. We hope you find famous and historic people who share your special day. See who was born in your birth month below.
Famous May Birthdays
May 1 Birthdays
Kate Smith, singer. (1909)
Glenn Ford, actor. (1916)
Jack Paar, TV personality. (1918)
Scott Carpenter, astronaut. (1925)
Rita Coolidge, singer. (1945)
Steve Cauthen, jockey. (1960)
Tim McGraw, country western singer. (1967)
May 2 Birthdays
Catherine II Empress of Russia (Catherine the Great). (1729)
Henry Robert, author of “Robert’s Rules of Order”, the standard for parliamentary procedures. (1837)
Theodor Herzl, founder of modern Zionism. (1860)
Baron Von Richtofen, Germany’s’ WWI “Red Baron”. (1892)
Benjamin Spock, physician, author, child-rearing expert. (1903)
Bing Crosby, singer, actor. (1904)
Bianca Jagger, actress, ex-wife of singer Mick Jagger. (1945)
Lesley Gore, singer. (1946)
Dwayne Johnson, wrestler, actor. (1972)
May 3 Birthdays
Niccolò Machiavelli, Renaissance writer. (1469)
Pete Seeger, singer, songwriter. (1919)
Sugar Ray Robinson, champion boxer. (1921)
James Brown, singer-songwriter, producer, actor. (1933)
Engelbert Humperdinck, singer. (1936)
Frankie Valli, singer, the “Four Seasons”. (1937)
Greg Gumbel, sportscaster. (1946)
Christopher Cross, Grammy-winning singer. (1951)
Wynona Judd, country singer. (1964)
Jewel Kilcher, singer. (1974)
May 4 Birthdays
Francis Joseph Spellman, archbishop of New York. (1889)
Audrey Hepburn, Dutch actress. (1929)
Roberta Peters, opera singer. (1930)
Randy Travis, country singer. (1959)
Lance Bass, singer, and member of “NSYNC”. (1979)
Rory McIlroy, Irish Golfer. (1989)
May 5 Birthdays
Karl Marx, socialist, political theorist. (1818)
Tyrone Power, actor. (1913)
Ann B. Davis, actress. (1926)
John J. Sweeney, labor leader. (1934)
Michael Murphy, actor. (1938)
Tammy Wynette, country singer. (1942)
Michael Palin, actor, comedian, and member of Monty Python. (143)
Brian Williams, journalist, TV news anchor. (1959)
Danielle Fishel, Actress, “Topanga” on TV series “Boy Meets World”. (1981)
Adele, British singer-songwriter. (1988)
May 6 Birthdays
Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist, founded psychoanalysis. (1856)
Robert E. Peary, Arctic explorer, first to reach the North Pole. (1856)
Rudolph Valentino, actor. (1895)
Orson Welles, actor, director, “War of the Worlds” radio hoax on October 30, 1938. (1915)
Willie Mays, Hall of Fame baseball player. (1931)
Bob Seger, singer, songwriter. (1945)
Tony Blair, British Prime Minister. (1953)
Roma Downey, actress. (1960)
George Clooney, actor, director, producer. (1961)
May 7 Birthdays
Robert Browning, poet. (1812)
Johannes Brahms, German music composer. (1833)
Peter Tchaikovsky, composer. (1840)
Gary Cooper, actor. (1901)
Darren McGavin, actor. (1922)
Johnny Unitas, NFL quarterback. (1933)
Robin Strasser, actress. (1945)
Tim Russert, TV journalist. (1950)
May 8 Birthdays
Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross. (1828)
Louis Moreau Gottschalk, pianist, composer. (1829)
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, religious leader, radio/TV. (1895)
Don Rickles, comedian/actor. (1926)
Sonny Liston, boxing champion. (1932)
Ricky Nelson, singer, actor. (1940)
Toni Tennille, singer. (1943)
Melissa Gilbert, actress. (1964)
Enrique Iglesias, singer. (1975)
May 9 Birthdays
John Brown, abolitionist, led the attack on Harpers Ferry. (1800)
Sir James M. Barrie, novelist, children’s author. (1860)
Hank Snow, country singer. (1914)
Mike Wallace, TV journalist. (1918)
Albert Finney, actor. (1936)
Candice Bergen, actress (Beverly Hills, CA). (1946)
Billy Joel, singer, songwriter. (1949)
May 10 Birthdays
John Wilkes Booth, actor, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. (1838)
Fred Astaire, dancer/actor, born Frederick Austerlitz. (1899)
Selznick, producer. (1902)
Judith Jamison, dancer/choreographer. (1944)
Bono (Vox), singer, member of U2. (1960)
Jason Brooks, actor. (1966)
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May 11 Birthdays
Irving Berlin, songwriter. (1888)
Henry Morgenthau Jr., conservationist. (1891)
Phil Silvers, comic actor
May 11, 1912 – Foster Brooks, comedian. (1912)
Richard Feynman, physicist. (1918)
Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam leader. (1933)
Robert Jarvik, a physician, invented the artificial heart. (1946)
Jonathan Jackson, actor. (1982)
May 12 Birthdays
Edward Lear, artist, author of light verse. (1812)
Florence Nightingale, British pioneer in the field of nursing. (1820)
Henry Cabot Lodge, politician, and historian. (1850)
Katharine Hepburn, actress. (1907)
Yogi Berra, baseball player, manager. (1925)
Burt Bacharach, songwriter. (1928)
Tom Snyder, broadcaster, journalist. (1936)
George Carlin, comedian. (1937)
Steve Winwood, musician, singer. (1948)
Bruce Boxleitner, actor. (1950)
Emilio Estevez, actor. (1962)
Stephen Baldwin, actor. (1966)
MacKenzie Astin, actor. (1973)
Jason Biggs, actor. (1978)
May 13 Birthdays
Joe Louis, boxing champion. (1913)
Beatrice Arthur, actress, starred on Tv sitcom “Golden Girls”. (1923)
Herbert Ross, actor, choreographer, director. (1927)
Stevie Wonder, singer, musician. (1950)
Dennis Rodman, NBA basketball player. (1961)
Stephen Colbert, television talk show host on The Late Show. (1964)
Samantha Morton, actress. (1977)
May 14 Birthdays
Gabriel D. Fahrenheit, physicist, mercury thermometers, created the Fahrenheit scale. (1686)
Patrice Munsel, opera singer. (1925)
George Lucas, filmmaker, Star Wars creator. (1944)
Meg Foster, actress. (1948)
Dennis Martinez, baseball pitcher. (1955)
Cate Blanchett, Oscar-winning actress “Elizabeth”. (1969)
Mark Zuckerberg, Cofounder and CEO of Facebook. (1984)
May 15 Birthdays
L. Frank Baum, children’s author. (1856)
Pierre Curie, a chemist, research on radioactivity. (1859)
Paul A. Samuelson, economist. (1915)
Richard Avedon, photographer. (1923)
Madeleine Albright, secretary of state. (1937)
Chazz Palminteri, actor, playwright, screenwriter. (1951)
George Brett, baseball player. (1953)
Lee Horsley, actor. (1955)
Emmitt Smith, Hall of Fame NFL Running Back. (1969)
May 16 Birthdays
May 16, 1905 – Henry Fonda, actor
Woody Herman, musician, bandleader. (1913)
Liberace, pianist. (1919)
Billy Martin, fiery baseball player, manager. (1928)
Adrienne Rich, writer. (1929)
Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor, “James Bond”, Mama Mia. (1953)
Olga Korbut, Olympic gymnast champion. (1955)
Debra Winger, actress. (1955)
Janet Jackson, pop rock singer, Michael Jackson’s sister. (1966)
David Boreanaz, actor, Television series Bones, and Seal Team. (1971)
Tori Spelling, actress. (1973)
May 17 Birthdays
Edward Jenner, physician, pioneered vaccinations. (1749)
Maureen O’Sullivan, actress. (1911)
Dennis Hopper, actor. (1936)
Sugar Ray Leonard, champion boxer. (1956)
Mia Hamm, Hall of Fame soccer player. (1972)
May 18 Birthdays
Frank Capra, Academy Award-winning director. (1897)
Jacob Javits, New York State senator. (1904)
Perry Como, singer. (1912)
Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), Catholic Pope. (1920)
Pernell Roberts, actor. (1930)
Robert Morse, actor. (1931)
Brooks Robinson, MLB player. (1937)
Reggie Jackson, MLB player, “Mr. October”. (1946)
George Strait, country singer. (1952)
May 18, 1970 – Tina Fey, Actress, writer, SNL. (1970)
May 19 Birthdays
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader. (1890)
Malcolm X (Little), civil rights activist. (1925)
Jim Lehrer, TV journalist, author. (1934)
David Hartman, actor. (1935)
Francis Scobee, astronaut, died in the Challenger Space Shuttle explosion. (1939)
Pete Townshend, musician, member of the “Who”. (1945)
Andre the Giant, French. (1945)
Kyle Eastwood, actor, son of Clint Eastwood. (1968)
May 20 Birthdays
Dolly Madison, First Lady of the U.S. (1768)
Henri Rousseau, painter. (1844)
James Stewart, actor. (1908)
Joe Cocker, singer. (1944)
Cher, ageless singer, actress, producer. (1946)
Tony Stewart, race car driver. (1971)
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May 21 Birthdays
Armand Hammer, industrialist, philanthropist. (1898)
Fats Waller, jazz pianist, songwriter. (1904)
Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel, teacher, artist, created Hummel figurines. (1909)
Harold Robbins, novelist. (1916)
Raymond Burr, actor, TV series of the same name, and “Ironsides”. (1917)
Andrei Sakharov, physicist, human rights activist. (1921)
Peggy Cass, Broadway actress, and celebrity panelist on “What’s My Line?” and “To Tell the Truth”. (1924)
Leo Sayer, singer, songwriter. (1948)
Al Franken, comedian, actor, writer. (1951)
Mr. T (Lawrence Tero), actor. (1952)
Judge Reinhold, actor. (1956)
May 22 Birthdays
Richard Wagner, composer. (1813)
Mary Cassatt, artist. (1844)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, writer, of detective stories. (1859)
Lord Laurence Olivier, actor, director. (1907)
Paul Winfield, actor. (1941)
Tommy John, a baseball pitcher. (1943)
Morrissey, British pop star. (1959)
May 23 Birthdays
Douglas Fairbanks, actor. (1883)
Artie Shaw, musician, bandleader. (1910)
May 23, 1920 – Helen O’Connell, singer. (1920)
Rosemary Clooney, singer. (1928)
Joan Collins, actress. (1933)
Charles Kimbrough, actor. (1936)
Anatoly Karpov, Russian Chess player. (1951)
Marvelous Marvin Hagler, boxing champion boxer. (1954)
Drew Carey, actor, comedian. (1958)
Ken Jennings, Game show “Jeopardy” record winner. (1974)
May 24 Birthdays
Queen Victoria, of Great Britain. (1819)
Bob Dylan, singer, songwriter. (1941)
Gary Burghoff, actor, won an Emmy for playing “Radar” on television series M*A*S*H. (1943)
Priscilla Presley, actress , ex-wife of Elvis Presley. (1946)
John C. Reilly, actor. (1965)
May 25 Birthdays
Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet. (1803)
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, tap dancer. (1878)
Igor Sikorsky, aeronautical engineer, developed helicopters. (1889)
Gene Tunney, champion boxer. (1898)
Leslie Uggams, singer. (1943)
Connie Sellecca, actress. (1955)
Anne Heche, actress. (1969)
May 26 Birthdays
Al Jolson, singer, actor. (1886)
John Wayne, actor, best known for westerns. (1907)
Jay Silverheels, actor, played “Tonto” on the television series “The Lone Ranger”. (1912)
Peggy Lee, singer. (1920)
James Arness, actor. (1923)
Jack Kevorkian, physician, and assisted suicides. (1928)
Brent Musberger, sportscaster, commentator. (1939)
Stevie Nicks, singer, songwriter, “Fleetwood Mac”. (1948)
Philip Michael Thomas, actor. (1949)
Hank Williams Jr., country singer. (1949)
Sally Ride, astronaut, 1st woman in space. (1951)
May 27 Birthdays
Cornelius Vanderbilt, financier, railroad tycoon. (1794)
Wild Bill Hickock, frontiersman, lawman. (1837)
Hubert H. Humphrey, Minnesota senator, presidential nominee. (1911)
Vincent Price, actor. (1911)
Sam Snead, golfer. (1912)
Herman Wouk, novelist. (1915)
Henry Kissinger, U. S. Secretary of State. (1923)
Louis Gossett Jr., actor. (1936)
May 28 Birthdays
Jim Thorpe, Olympic champion pentathlete/decathlete. (1888)
Ian Fleming, novelist, creator of James Bond movies. (1908)
Walker Percy, novelist. (1916)
Carroll Baker, actress. (1931)
Rudolph Giuliani, New York City mayor. (1944)
Gladys Knight, singer, “Gladys Knight and the Pips”. (1944)
John Fogerty, rock singer. (1945)
May 29 Birthdays
Patrick Henry, American politician. (1736)
Patrick Henry, Revolutionary War leader, orator. (1736)
Bob Hope, comedian, actor. (1903)
John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. President, was assassinated in office in 1963. (1917)
Al Unser Sr., auto racer. (1939)
La Toya Jackson, pop singer, sister of Michael Jackson. (1956)
Annette Bening, actress. (1958)
Melissa Etheridge, rock singer. (1961)
Melanie Janine Brown, singer, “Scary Spice” of the “Spice Girls”. (1975)
May 30 Birthdays
Peter I (Peter the Great), Emperor of Russia. (1672)
Peter Carl Faberge, jeweler. (1846)
Benny Goodman, bandleader, musician. (1909)
Gale Sayers, football player. (1943)
Meredith MacRae, actress. (1944)
Lisa Kudrow, actress, TV Sitcom “Friends”. (1963)
Wynonna Judd, country singer. (1964)
May 31 Birthdays
Walt Whitman, poet. (1819
Fred Allen, comedian. (1894)
Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, religious leader. (1898)
Don Ameche, actor. (1908)
Clint Eastwood, actor, director. (1930)
Peter Yarrow, singer/songwriter, “Peter, Paul, and Mary”. (1938)
Joe Namath, NFL quarterback. (1943)
Tom Berenger, actor. (1950)
Lea Thompson, actress. (1961)
Brooke Shields, actress, and model. (1965)
Colin Ferrell, actor. (1976)
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